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Meditation

What is meditation?

Meditation is a chance to know the "see-er"- know thyself.

Meditation actually has the potential to make a person happy. When scientists at the University of Wisconsin scanned the brains of practicing Buddhists, they discovered that the part of the brain associated with happiness showed much more activity in regular meditators, than in a control group of people who didn't practice meditation-on a regular basis. Meditation is simply consciously directing your attention in order to transcend the never-ending flow of thoughts through your mind. Meditation can be accomplished by many methods. You seem to "move inside yourself" at the same time you "step outside yourself." Being able to meditate takes you out of the stranglehold of the ego. Your perspective widens, and you begin reassess what is important and what is not. Miraculously, answers to problems start to materialize, as you tap into your own inner guidance * Receive the gift of peaceful living through meditation. * Learn to manage stress. * Meditation can be part of changing your lifestyle to one of health and optimum performance. * Learn how to release negativity and emotional energy.

How to Listen to Your Inner Guidance

We all have an inner guidance system that is helping us and guiding us at every moment at every second of every day.

The only reason that we feel we are not intuitive is simply because we lack the skills necessary to be a good listener to what is going on inside us. Intuition is something that is innate to us, we are born with it and we actually live by it.

Many times unfortunately though we listen to the wrong signals and we have a difficult time discerning messages from the ego mind as well as directions from our true inner source. Our inner source will always guide us to the answers and decisions that are for the highest good of all concerned.

The goals of meditation

The final goal of meditation is to reach our real "I", to empty the mind from thoughts, and to be conscious of the residue, which is Pure Awareness.

 

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Yoga Retreats

"Yoga exists in the world because everything is linked" ---- (Desikashar)

From yoga retreats and meditation teacher training to personal retreats, here you will find peace, healing, and the practical tools necessary to make them a reality in your life.


Yogis, people who practice yoga, come in all shapes and sizes. Contrary to stereotypes, not all practitioners eat vegetarian and eschew the luxuries of life. They’re much more likely to be "Lohas," a relatively freshly minted group of individuals that enjoy "lifestyles of health and sustainability." Our yoga retreats include the beaches of Hawaii and the coast of Baja California